House of Cadell Jeanson Raja, where the mass family was killed in April 2017 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
A luxuriously large house set in a leaf dead end in UPSCALE Bains Compond of a neighborhood near the official residences of cabinet ministers in the capital became a terrible scene of the mass family killing in April 2017.
On Monday, the Thiruvananthapuram District Court is likely to try to achieve closure in appalling killing that shocked the public conscience and left the police and society to respond with the answer.
The court is likely to approve its judgment on Cadell Jeansen Raja, the only accused in the “killing of the execution of one after execution” of his father, Professor Raja, his mother, Dr. Jean Padma, cardiologist, carolla sister, medical graduate from the University of China and his blind aunt, Lalitha.
The case of the prosecution was that Mr. Raja, currently the only surviving heir for the huge fortune of the family, including the huge plantation in Tamil Nadu, summoned his victims to his top under various pretexts, and close them from behind. Murders took place for three days and began on April 5, 2017.
The emergency emergencyists found that partially burnt bodies of the victims after the neighbors reported a fire on April 8. A week later, the police arrested Mr. Raja, who decorated to Chennai and recorded minor injuries of burns on his hands.
Police renewed “Stanley’s carpenter’s ax”, which Mr. Raja reportedly bought online. In their room they found cache violent video games, crammed computers and equipped with gaming devices.
Investigators told the court that killing imitated those in the video game “Zoombie Go Boom”, which they “recovered” from Mr. Raja’s computer. Investigators also “recovered” the human mannequin, which Mr. Raja allegedly used to “improve the methods of killing inspired video games”.
The legal anxiety of Mr. Raja to face the court, he delayed this case by eight years.
The police set up the Medical Council, including psychiatrists, to verify the claim of Mr. Raja that he lacked “Men’s Rea”, legal eufemism for knowledge of unlawful conduct and premedication.
Mr. Raja claimed that the killing occurred when he practiced “astral projection”, “pseudo -science” that promises practicing “outside the body”. The Medical Council testified that killing had a preliminary crime designation.
Investigators portrayed Mr. Raja as a loner and socially inadequate video game enthusiast who spent long hours working in his top.
Criminal prosecution told the court that family dysfunction, persistent hostility towards parents and social isolation culminated in killing.
They said Mr. Raja played less academically than his highly educated parents were expected, and suffered the decision of his mother to accept a foreign task and the determination of his sister to go abroad for higher studies.
SP to Baiju, Dysp JK Dinil, Sub Inspectors Manicantan and Rajesh investigated the case. Special prosecutor Dilip Satyan argued on behalf of the state. Judge VI by Judge K. Vishn chaired the court.
Published – May 11, 2025 17:41
